The labor force participation rate, which peaked in 2000, has been trending lower ever since.
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The unemployment rate fell from 10.8% to 7.2%, even though labor force participation increased from 64.2% to 64.5%.
All of these effects, however, should show up as falling labor force participation.
At the same time, the labor force participation rate is near 30-year lows.
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Of those in the 18-54 age bracket, labor force participation rates of veterans and nonveterans were both about 88%.
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The labor force participation rate was also unchanged at 63.6 percent in December.
The labor force rose by 578, 000 people in October, and the labor force participation rate increased by 0.2 percentage point.
The projections are based on expected labor force participation, the assumed unemployment rate and estimated housing starts, among other factors.
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The record low labor force participation rates mean that nearly 25% of Americans from 25 to 55 are not working.
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The US female labor force participation rate, is rising over time, and for most of recent history higher than in Japan.
Judged against the labor force participation we would have at full employment (67.3%), the true jobless rate right now is 13.2%.
Note that each percentage point decrease in labor force participation rate is equivalent to 3 million people leaving the labor force.
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In addition, the US labor force has flattened out as female labor force participation has stopped rising and the population ages.
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It is not the case that the reason the unemployment rate fell sharply was because of reductions in labor force participation.
The labor force participation rate for mothers of young children stood at 70.6% in 2011, compared with 47% in 1975.
In August, the labor force participation rate for men was the lowest on record, which goes all the way back to 1948.
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The labor force participation rate was unchanged at 63.6 percent in January.
The labor force participation rate declined by 0.2 percentage point last month.
The civilian labor force declined by 496, 000 over the month, with the labor force participation rate falling by 0.2 percentage point to 63.3%.
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The economic consequence will be either higher unemployment, a further decline in the labor force participation rate, or a combination of the two.
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Moreover, the labor force participation rate, which is a measure of the percentage of people working in the entire population, is falling precipitously.
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The labor force participation rate of recent immigrants is reported as high as 94 percent, about one third higher than the general population.
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Those skeptics say the dropping unemployment rate mostly is from a drop in able-bodied people quitting the job search (and lowering labor force participation).
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If labor force participation in June 2011 were the same as June 2009 (65.7%), the reported unemployment rate would be 11.2% rather than 9.1%.
Over the last 12 months, the unemployment rate has fallen by 0.4 percentage point, and the labor force participation rate has been essentially unchanged.
The first, from a team of three Australian researchers, looks at the impact that the price of child care has on female labor force participation.
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The 350, 000 decline in the labor force brought the labor force participation rate in November to 63.6 percent, down slightly from 63.8 percent in October.
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The labor force participation rate did not change substantially at all.
The latest labor force participation data suggests that thousands of job seekers have given up looking for work, which removes them from the actual unemployment rate.
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